Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 2 | Time and again , sons or hired hands were sent vaulting over the dry stone walls to Low Birk Hatt when it became obvious that the Hauxwells were on the point of dropping with exhaustion as they struggled to finish their haymaking or sheep shearing . |
| 3 | In March 1143 Pope Innocent II decreed that its validity was to depend on Ste Barbe swearing that it had been canonical ; he had not made this oath by February 1146 , when Eugenius III suspended Fitzherbert . |
| 4 | ABSEILING 130ft from maltings at Bury St Edmunds is not everyone 's ideal Saturday afternoon pastime but it suited our daring duo from the maltings , and from Export . |
| 5 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 6 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 7 | There will also be footage of the Runcorn-Widnes transporter bridge before it closed in the early sixties and shots of the construction of the new Birkenhead tramway earlier this year . |
| 8 | People were making a lot of money out of Dr Martens clothing before it existed . |
| 9 | The post office was started in 1860 ; the first postmaster was Mr Robert Harker and it stayed in this family for 100 years . |
| 10 | On Oct. 19 the jopint UN-IAEA Special Commission on Iraqi disarmament had maintained in a report to the UN Security Council that it remained constrained from going beyond preparatory work on weapons inspection and verification until Iraq agreed to comply with such monitoring " on the Council 's , not Iraq 's terms " . |
| 11 | The combination roared along Castle Walk , echoing into the empty courtyard of the Berkeley Hunt kennels as it careered up the last hill into the tiny village . |
| 12 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 13 | His findings include a confession from a man who shot at the UN plane minutes before it crashed . |
| 14 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid . |
| 15 | Following Japan 's defeat in 1945 , Korea was divided ; South Korea was occupied by United States forces until it became independent as the Republic of Korea in August 1948 . |
| 16 | This political sea change coincided with the most dramatic incident to have occurred on the Hinkley Point site since it started operation . |
| 17 | On April 9 the government closed the offices of Africa Concord magazine after it ran the headline : " Has Babangida given up ? " . |
| 18 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 19 | THREE and a half thousand people applied to Staffordshire Fire Service after it advertised just 24 vacancies . |
| 20 | There amidst the general gloom was a report from Hong Kong Land that it had sold a property in the colony achieving a profit of approximately £273m . |
| 21 | This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts . |
| 22 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 23 | The experience of the Birmingham County Court when it established a separate office to deal with litigants in person would suggest that the answer is that it is not . |
| 24 | But it has taken £69 million at the US box office since it opened at Christmas — all of which will delight Great Ormond Street Hospital , to which J M Barrie gave the rights of Peter Pan . |
| 25 | A rubbish dump at Wood Farm became so large that residents complained to Oxford City Council that it posed a fire risk . |
| 26 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 27 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
| 28 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 30 | The station building was moved from Monifieth ( by Dundee ) and may be recognised by visitors to the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival when it formed Central Regional Council 's ‘ Heart of Scotland ’ exhibit . |